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A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.
— H.L. Mencken
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
— H.L. Mencken
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
— H.L. Mencken
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
— H.L. Mencken
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
— H.L. Mencken
Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.
— Brian C. O'Connor, Jud H. Copeland, Jodi L. Kearns
Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully.
— H.L. Mencken
The flowers' beauty drew her closer to them like a magnetic force. She felt compelled to walk a little faster.
— H. L. Balcomb
Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.
— H.L. Mencken
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
— H.L. Mencken
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
— H.L. Mencken
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
— H.L. Mencken
I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.
— H.L. Mencken
No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.
— H.L. Mencken
History is one damn thing after another.
— H.A.L. Fisher
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
— H.L. Mencken
In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
— H.L. Mencken
For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.
— H.L. Mencken
The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.
— H.L. Mencken
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
— H.L. Mencken
This place is as dead as dice. Nothing safer to rob than a grave, if you can push past the creep factor.
— H.L. Burke
New York: A third-rate Babylon.
— H.L. Mencken
God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.
— H.L. Mencken
I'm a bit of an audiobook junkie,
— L. H. Cosway
The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool.
— H.L. Mencken
I'll never hit a lady, but I'll slap a bitch.
— L. H. Cosway
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
— H.L. Mencken
A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.
— H.L. Mencken
I know of no human being who has a better time than an eager and energetic young reporter.
— H.L. Mencken
Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.
— H.L. Mencken
Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.
— H.L. Mencken
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
— H.L. Mencken
In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.
— H.L. Mencken
We all see a lot when we decide to truly look.
— L. H. Cosway
If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.
— H.L. Mencken
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
— H.L. Mencken
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
— H.L. Mencken
On the strength of his literary output alone ... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
H. L. Mencken said, The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
— Ron Paul
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
— H.L. Mencken
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
— H.L. Mencken
At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.
— H.L. Mencken
Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.
— H.L. Mencken
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
— H.L. Mencken
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
— H.L. Mencken
The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.
— H.L. Mencken
Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.
— H.L. Mencken
A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.
— H.L. Mencken
The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.
— H.L. Mencken
Whenever a husband and a wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
— H.L. Mencken
Okay, this is messed up. I'm getting all hot and bothered over a man who's more comfortable in make-up and a pair of heels that I am.
— L. H. Cosway
She said seals sexually assault penguins and deserved to be clubbed. That woman is nuttier than a Snickers bar.
— L. H. Cosway
When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
— H.L. Mencken
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
— H.L. Mencken
I needed to get a handle on this girlish exhilaration. This girlish exhilaration needed a reality check. Maybe even a bitch-slap.
— L. H. Cosway
The problem with a lot of feminist works is that they tend to take the "feminine" out of "feminism.
— H.L. Grey
Our Higher Self is a narrative of hope.
— H. L. Balcomb
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.
— H.L. Mencken
To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.
— H.L. Stephens
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
— H.L. Mencken
Money is just a way of keeping score.
— H. L. Hunt
Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.
— H.L. Mencken
What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?
— H.L. Mencken
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
— H.L. Mencken
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
— H.L. Mencken
Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety
— H.L. Mencken
